In2scienceUK has supported thousands of young people from low income backgrounds to reach their potential in Science, Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM). On the 29th of March 2020, Steph McGovern broadcasts our BBC Radio 4 Appeal, telling the nation of the pioneering work being conducted by in2scienceUK with young people every day across the country. […]
We are on the search for a new Chair to take up the reins and to support the charity to grow nationally, based on the incredible success and impact it has had so far. In2scienceUK participants are significantly more likely to build their confidence, knowledge and understanding not just of what STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering […]
In2scienceUK aims to widen participation and increase diversity in STEM among disadvantaged and underrepresented young people in the West Midlands Birmingham – In2scienceUK, a charity that promotes diversity and inclusion within the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) sector, announces a partnership with the University of Birmingham to support disadvantaged local Year 12 students into […]
School pupils from low-income households will get the chance to participate in work placements with Royal Society fellows as part of a scheme aimed at widening participation in science. In2ScienceUK, a charity that facilitates work experience at universities and companies for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, announced on 8 October that it would be partnering with […]
For the tenth time in a row, the impossibly thin piece of metal alloy broke. Of course, this wasn’t a normal metal alloy but was in-fact platinum-iridium wire. This is the kind of equipment you normally only get access to in your third year of a physics degree. Yet through the access provided by in2science, […]
Photo: Issy and Molly with Pawan Jolly in the department of electronic & electrical engineering Within the department we were working with the Biosensor group. During our time there we were given lots of opportunities organised by our supervisor, Pawan Jolly, to experience and learn about research science. We visited chemistry, electronics and the nanofabrication […]
Despite the warning at the introduction day that the labs we will be entering will not resemble ‘a giant room filled with new state of the art tech and machinery littered with scientists in their lab coats constantly pipetting’. I still had small hopes that some aspects of the description would be true. How I […]
by Aneesa Ali My engineering placement was with Laing O’Rourke; an engineering enterprise based in the UK who provide engineering, construction and management services to countries all over the world. One of the projects they are currently working on is Crossrail; a new rail service in and around London which will reduce congestion on train […]
A PCR – Polymerase Chain Reaction – is a reaction that is used to amplify the genes from a sample of DNA. In my PCR, we were trying to identify the normal “wild type” samples, and the SOD samples. I ran 12 samples in total – 2 controls (1 wild type, 1 SOD) and 10 […]
Ruki Ibrahim and Hafiza Irshad were supervised by Dr Laura Yates in Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine. Here they share some of the imaging work they did:
Thulase undertook a two-week placement in UCL’s Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, where she set up experiments to look at the effect of pH on arterial dilation and constriction, as well as trying out patch-clamping. Read about her experience here: Thulase In2ScienceUK Blog (pdf)
Firstly I want to apologise. The majority of my week or even just a whole day was not based on mind control – it was only a small part. However what I did was as interesting as mind control. So at 8.20 Monday morning I arrive at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine to […]
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The heart of my supervisor’s research are these four words, much like a riddle in its entirety, it would be better to say the heart of this research relies in solving this particular riddle. However this puzzle goes beyond the typical, with its involvement of tissue culturing, fluorescent microscopy, something rather brilliant […]
By Lewis Hayward The aim of my placement was to isolate a yeast (Metschnikowia pulcherrima) that is capable of producing an antibiotic from blackberry bushes found on campus. I collected 3 leaves, 3 fruits and 3 flowers from 5 bushes on Bath University’s Bee Unit. From there I had to compare yeasts growing on those […]
Biiftuu had a week-long work placement with Laing O’Rourke, looking at the work of engineers involved with the new Francis Crick Institute, as well as the new Crossrail and Underground station at Tottenham Court Road.
My second week at King’s was spent with Dr Matthew Grubb and his team consisting of Elisa Galliano and Adna Dumitriscu which I got to work with closely with. Their project was more focused on neurons and more specifically, the olfactory bulb in mice. They want to see if and how stimuli affects the AIS […]
by Regina Gul My placement this summer was at King’s College London in the Neuroscience department for the duration of two weeks (17th August – 28th August 2015). Before I start this entry, I would like to mention just how wonderful everyone was at making sure I was well accommodated with their work, that I […]
by Hafiza Irshad During my two weeks in the lab I was given some cells to look after (A549), I developed a strong bond with these cells over the two weeks and loved them as my own. The cells divide constantly, if they outgrow their container they run the risk of dying, something I definitely […]
by Hafiza Irshad The two weeks I spent in lab were the highlight of my summer. The equipment surpassed anything we had in school labs. No squeezy pipettes, no ball pipettes – which never seem to work and amazingly, I didn’t have to wear goggles (I was safe without them). Aside from all the luxuries […]